Driving home from the game yesterday, I heard an interview with Bob Marley's daughter. Apparently Bob lived for football, as did his sons who all played in the streets.
Long story; the Jamaican womens team aka Reggae Girlz were getting zero funding and she stepped in and propped up the ladies national team. Her son is a reggae / rap artist but after his concert dates dates are done she will arrive in AU to support the girlz. Nice story.
EDIT:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/22/sport/cedella-marley-jamaica-womens-world-cup-spt-intl/index.html
Football has consumed much of Cedella Marley’s life. But perhaps that should not come as a
surprise.
As the daughter of global reggae icon Bob Marley, who was a renowned lover of the
beautiful game, Cedella was never far from a soccer ball growing up. Had he not been a musician, Cedella recalls her father telling her, he would have wanted to be a
soccer player.
“Daddy played every day,” Marley told
CNN Sport. “He would play anywhere he was: on the road, you’d find a field, you’d find a team.
“Sometimes, it would be the photographers who were out there, you know; sometimes, it would be the journalists and it would be the band against the journalists.
“I watched him growing up, I also watch my brothers, Ziggy and Steve. They played football growing up, too, and it was just always something that I loved. I love to kick a ball and was super competitive when my brothers would challenge me.”
Recalling advice given to her by
Pelé, Cadella smiled broadly as she repeated the words the Brazilian all-time great told her: “The ball is round and always take the penalty.”
